The Machine Staff

At Nellis Air Force Base last year, an AI system was tasked with building courses of action, a complex operational problem that military planners have spent generations learning to perform. The AI system took less than a minute to complete its task with solutions rated at 97 percent viable and tactically valid (essentially, whether the proposed plan could work given operational constraints such as fuel and force composition). By contrast, their human counterparts took roughly 19 minutes and only reached 48 percent viability.That comparison needs two qualifiers. First, the tool that hit 97 perc